Kashi Gomez

As a scholar of South Asia, Kashi Gomez specializes in intellectual history, gender, and early modernity. Her current book project is titled Half of a Body: Gender, Desire, and Brahmins in the Eighteenth Century. The book examines two contemporaneous projects of Brahminical ideological production related to sex, gender, and desire in Maratha-ruled Tanjavur between 1676 and 1735. Dr. Gomez is an incoming Assistant Professor (starting in July 2025) in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Select Publications

“Sanskrit and the Labour of Gender in Early Modern South India.” Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 1 (2023), 167-194. doi:10.1017/S0026749X21000640.

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

M.A., University of California, Berkeley

B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Academic Appointments

2025-

University of Pennsylvania, Department of South Asia Studies, Assistant Professor

2022-2025

University of Pennsylvania, Department of South Asia Studies, Lecturer in Sanskrit